Final Requests for Help

One final question, and it's fine if the answer is simply a yes or a no. Has anyone ever coded a patch that puts the item description window in the equip screen, so that you can see a weapon's special effects?

Oh yes, GrayShadows built an amazing combined gear + relic equip screen that also loads item descriptions. You can see it live in the wild in Brave New World, though I understand he built it separate initially and ported it over. Here's what it looks like:

Yes, I am currently using this awesome menu by GrayShadows (he was kind enough to share the code with me), but currently it has a bug with Genji Glove in which you can equip two swords on a character, remove the Genji Glove, and the character will keep the two swords.  This is because he removed the optimize function (not a huge loss on its own, but it causes the aforementioned bug along with a few other quirks, like the Gauntlet not auto-removing a shield).